Articles: Actresses and Professors Protest the Pipeline

The truth is, it is not the fact that oil sands are "dirty" that upsets greens. It is that they are plentiful, thus ensuring a vast 50-year supply of cheap and affordable fossil fuel. It is estimated that Canadian oil sands contain 1.75 trillion barrels of recoverable oil, an amount equal to current global reserves of conventional oil. The left is determined to block further entry of oil sands production into the U.S. because that production would ensure continued reliance on fossil fuels for decades to come.

NIPCC report: Rising CO2 is beneficial « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

The authors of the new NIPCC report conclude that “the net effect of continued warming and rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere is most likely to be beneficial to humans, plants, and wildlife.”

- Bishop Hill blog - Stripping the land bare

The British landscape is going to get a new, pared-back look it seems.

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